24 thoughts on “How To Get Unstuck When You Create Content”

These are helpful tips to be consistently creating new content for your website. The most helpful tips here, I'd like to say, are keeping an ideas journal and planning ahead.

Your mind is constantly thinking, and ideas come and go. The challenging part is to remember everything later on. This is why it is important to write down the ideas that you get when you get them. Don't trick yourself into thinking that you will be able to remember later. This has happened to me, a lot.

It is better to be safe than sorry later, right. So, getting into the habit of writing ideas as they come will help you a lot with this. You can now write these ideas on your smartphone, so you always have somewhere to save new ideas. No excuses now.

Planning ahead is also very helpful. It has helped me become a better blogger and content creator, so I know it works.

I have finally started working hard on SEO and am beginning to understand the importance of keywords. As I work toward being more intentional with a content calendar, is there a strategy to determine which keywords or topics will be popular in the coming months? Related to that, is it important to publish posts when a topic is popular? Or can I publish the posts and then promote them through social media when the topic is popular?

Great question – this highly depends on your niche. Coupon, deal sites have a pattern of seasonal keywords. So are the sites that publish news pieces.

Products or self help articles on certain topics are popular at certain times of the year. For instance, when Halloween approaches you might want to publish Halloween costume ideas or decoration ideas (if yours is a Home decor blog) or Halloween recipes (if you run a food blog).

However, having a wide range of keywords for your niche in a master list is something you should have.

As I nod to your idea journal Jane I see my Word docs saved. A few are simple blog post ideas. I thought how last night's village party here in Thailand was like good blogging, or gave us successful blogging analogies. I recorded the title immediately. Stowed away for safe-keeping. Now I can grab it anytime to write the post and publish either on BFP or on another blog.

We've some 60,000 thoughts daily guys. No way to remember all or even a few hundred – being honest – so grab ideas and record immediately via a journey or just save the title via a Word document. Return later to write or if you feel it now, write the sucker. Sometimes from idea to post completion some 20 minutes spans. Then I go live with the thing.

That's brilliant. The more we are willing to grab the ideas before they evaporate, the more we can create. I really feel sorry for myself in the early days of blogging when I would promise myself to write down an idea when I get the time.

When I started to blog I was following the same first three steps and still following. These steps are very essential if you really want to have a good content on your site. I really liked this post, Jane thanks for sharing.David recently posted Best Way to Set up a Business Model Similar to Airbnb

Awesome tips as always. Creating content is NOT easy. Content marketing is becoming more popular these days with the increase in awareness of “educated buyers”. People are looking for more information and educating themselves before making a purchase online. That’s where content marketing comes into play to make things easier.

But creating informative content is not easy. So we have so many options like; hiring a freelance writer, allowing other bloggers to post on your site, or simply interviewing others so you can create nonstop content.

As you suggested, keeping an idea journal and an editorial calendar always works great especially when you’re building a content marketing strategy for your site. It’s also important to spy on your competitors to know what works best for your target audience too. Sometimes you create better content by sneaking into your competitors websites.

Great tips here. Being a blogger, we all have a to produce quality and relevant content on the daily basis. It will help us to keep our blog fresh and full of useful information that resonates with our readers. I personally getting posts ideas from my readers and also from sites like Quora and other online communities. Thanks for sharing these great tips here.

Hi, Jane! Super great and insightful post here. Glad to see you here on Sue's space.

I really love the idea of working around with your journals. As for me, I use Evernote which has been really helpful as I don't need to be working around with physical books. With Evernote, I get to put down every new idea that pops into my head and I've been using this for a while now.

Another thing I love about Evernote is that I can access it on any device (with internet connection).

These tips are great for people who have writer's block and can't figure out what to with their blogs.

Me? I have too many ideas! LOL

And not enough time to execute all of them!

I like your point about keeping a calendar. I used to keep one, and write three posts a month for my site: one for bloggers, one for writers, and one for freelancers (because I am all of these, and there is often a lot of overlap!).

Now I do things a bit differently, because I have realized where most of my clients come from. So I am now trying to serve them better with my posts. 🙂

Wording Well (my business site) has evolved so much over the years, and I am proud where I am now, helping many people on many different levels… and helping others become authors too!Lorraine Reguly recently posted How to Use Positive Affirmations to Improve Your Life